Key Team Personality Types

By Jeff Palfini

Updated on: June 17, 2008 / 4:46 PM
/ MoneyWatch

Much like characters in a role-playing game, everyone on a successful team plays a unique part. When certain challenges arise, you need to know whose strengths will best match the task. Here are a few key personality types to look for.

The Agitator

Strength:

Questions the status quo, outspoken

Weakness:

Abrasive, needs prodding to work well with others

Weapon:

Impatience

Battle cry:

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard Feynman, physicist

Defining moment:

The Agitator is the flint that sparks innovation within the team. An unwillingness to accept things as they are and propensity for speaking out can often trigger real and important change.